April 2011

The Council of Deans yesterday was about the research and innovation bill. What should we emphasise? All the faculties will carry out an analysis by August. Sven Strömqvist and Klas Malmqvist will send out further instructions to the faculties. In addition, there were discussions on ranking and risk analysis. The method we use for risk analysis needs to be modified … Continue reading →

The position of assistant vice-chancellor with responsibility for education matters is now being advertised. Ingalill Rahm Hallberg will be retiring this year and in conjunction with this we are having a reshuffle in the management group. The new assistant vice-chancellor will have particular responsibility for first-, second- and third-cycle education. The post is 25 per cent from 1 September to … Continue reading →

Our external advisers for EQ11, Education Quality 2011, will arrive on Sunday, 1 May. Over the coming week, the 16 advisers from Sweden, Denmark, Germany the Netherlands, the US, India and Australia will visit our faculties and help us to look to the future. The chair of the advisory group is Provost Judyth Sachs, who is also one of our … Continue reading →

We have today met Hallands nation’s qurator and inspector in connection with the incident at Hallands nation, where students at a dinner held a mock slave auction. Lund University’s core values uphold equality and ethnic and social diversity. Discrimination and unfair treatment are not acceptable. Respect, tolerance and consideration shall be shown to all, and there shall be shared responsibility … Continue reading →

The management of Uppsala University visited us on Friday. We discussed the strategic research areas and the upcoming research and innovation bill. We also compared our work on Fronesis with Uppsala’s work on its reform, Increased Freedom. We were able to observe many similarities. In the afternoon we devoted some of the time to discussions on quality assurance work – … Continue reading →

Today, the Development Council held a meeting at Kemicentrum, hosted by the Faculty of Science. Olle Söderman and Ina Alexandersson gave a presentation of the Science Faculty’s undergraduate handbook, which is constructed in SharePoint. There were many positive comments from members of the Development Council. Fronesis sub-projects III and IV gave status reports. Head of Evaluation Tina Josefsson talked about … Continue reading →

Håkan Sandgren, programme manager for our new joint teacher training programme with Kristianstad University College, opened the Council of Deans meeting with a presentation. He stressed that teacher training is something that interests everyone “from ministers to mothers”. We went through upcoming University Board decisions on resource and financial governance; a discussion on the matter will be held on Tuesday … Continue reading →